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Cecile A. Lengacher, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAPOS (she/her/hers)

Professor USF College of Nursing
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, United States

Cecile A. Lengacher, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FAPOS, is a professor at the University of South Florida College of Nursing and holds the Lyall and Beatrice Thompson Nursing Professorship in Oncology. Dr. Lengacher also serves as faculty for the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Health Outcomes, and Behavioral Program, Breast Cancer Clinical Program, and Population Sciences Division. She is an internationally recognized nurse scientist, with expertise in bio-behavioral clinical trial intervention research including psycho-oncology, psychoneuroimmunology, and complementary alternative medicine (CAM). Her work has advanced the science in complementary alternative medicine, primarily by testing the link between CAM therapies and physiological, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes for cancer survivors and caregivers. This advancement of science in CAM therapies led to the advancement of symptom science through the examination of symptoms and their relationship to biological mechanisms of action on natural killer cells, stress hormones, cytokines, telomeres, and genes. Examination of these mechanisms of action has had a high scientific international influence. Dr. Lengacher’s research on developing and testing CAM therapy interventions has transformed models of care for the delivery of mindfulness-based stress reduction, translating research into practice. This research is cited in numerous publications. Dr. Lengacher has sustained funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, and Oncology Nursing Society. As a leader in her field, Dr. Lengacher has published as the first or second author of over 120 of 194 nursing and interdisciplinary journals. The dissemination of her research into leading oncology and interdisciplinary journals has had a high national and international influence receiving high citation rankings. Dr. Lengacher is nationally honored, as a Fellow of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, as well as an appointment to several NIH national and international grant review and journal review panels.


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